Personal Weapon Control

The subject of a Lehigh Valley man's quixotic, heavily armed "rescue mission" to New York City — a 16-year-old girl ostensibly at risk from the heroin trade — didn't need to be rescued, according to her mother and police.

"My daughter doesn't do heroin," Cyndi Angeles said Wednesday outside her home in Wilkes-Barre as she prepared to leave for New York to pick up her daughter. "It was her friend."

Angeles said she had only learned of her daughter's involvement Wednesday morning and offered no further comment.

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